Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Survey of English Housing, 2007-2008

Variable Details

Variablenssec2
LabelNS-SEC Socio-economic classification
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 42
2 Higher managerial occupations 873
3 Higher professional occupations 1328
4 Lower professional and higher technical occupations 2161
5 Lower managerial occupations 1152
6 Higher supervisory occupations 674
7 Intermediate occupations 1372
8 Small employers 398
9 Own account workers 1160
10 Lower supevisory occupations 1245
11 Lower technical occupations 536
12 Semi-routine occupations 2102
13 Routine occupations 1908
14 Never worked or long-term unemployed 0
15 Full-time students 0
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 0
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 No information (99) 0
-8 Refusal (98) 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 11826
-1 Item not applicable 691
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationSurvey of English Housing, 2007-2008
Interviewer InstructionsNS-SEC Socio-economic Classification.
UniversePrivate households and privately renting tenancy groups in England;Households;Housing;Tenants;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study conducted annually from 1993/1994-2007/2008. The SEH was replaced by the EHS from 2008 (see Abstract section for details).